- Extension
- .ra
- .cda
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA)
- Description
- RealPlayer created RA for audio streaming. It makes use of various audio codecs from those that deliver high-fidelity sounds to those that record low bitrate audio data. Radio stations mainly used it for online streaming, but current formats have overthrown it.
- Audio file ripped from a CD formatted using the CD Digital Audio specification; can be extracted using applications such as iTunes or Logic Pro; used for saving CD audio data to a computer, as well as burning new CDs.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/x-cda
